Goat cheese stuffed mushrooms

Mine has been glorious. Since I got here, my work schedule has been a little cray cray, so a day off has been fully embraced. 🙂

The day has included hot yoga – I was so excited to see Katy and Ashley’s lovely faces at practice this morning

A little shopping, but not the *fun* kind as I just picked up a netbook:

For the record, the entire country is going through a pink netbook drought. I had to roll with the maroon-colored one… Pinkie is a little irked because pink and red totally clash, but what can ya do?

The netbook is pretty awesome though- so compact and will be perfect for at-work blogging on break 🙂

After the netbook buy, I had a spa appointment at Pia which was LOVELY –if you’re ever in the Winter Garden area, check it out!- and grabbed personal pizzas for my cousin and I for lonchi.

Pizza Fusion is an organic pizza place on Sand Lake– they have multigrain and gluten-free crusts, are vegan-friendly and serve organic wine and beer.

I got the vegan pizza on multigrain (tomato sauce, roasted garlic and cremini mushrooms), which I de-veganized by replacing the soy cheese with goat’s, and added kalamata olives.

Usually “personal pizzas” are really “feed-a-family-of-four pizzas”, but not this one- it was the ideal size! I ate the entire thing topped with red pepper flakes, a green salad with Garlic Gold and balsamic ,and a little of the dark chocolate in the above pic for dessert. Amazing 🙂

Right now, I’m about to get some paperwork together to send out, hit up a dance class (Zumba or Dance Trance) and then chill for the evening.

I would be so honored and thrilled if they chose me to make these goat-cheese stuffed mushrooms at the Foodbuzz Festival. I think they’d be a perfect Foodbuzz festival party bite and the vegetarians would be able to enjoy them as well 🙂

Disclaimer: The coupon for the product got lost in the mail, so I used my own dinero to buy the Nature’s Pride bread for this recipe. I made these when the Pilot was still here a couple of weeks ago, and use Nature’s Pride to make his sandwiches anyway 🙂

Goat Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms

Serves 4 as an appetizer

Ingredients:

-2 slices of Nature’s Pride whole wheat bread, toasted

-1 container of mushrooms (white button mushrooms or baby bellas are a great choice), cleaned and stems removed- scrape the gills out with a spoon

-3 cloves of garlic

-2 T fresh basil

-1 T parsley

-1 container (8 oz) of soft goat cheese

-1/2 t dried oregano, sea salt, pepper and cayenne

1. Pre-heat the oven to 375* and spray a cookie sheet with olive oil or nonstick spray.

2. In a small food processor, chop the garlic. Add the two slices of bread (you may have to tear them to fit) and pulse until you have fine breadcrumbs.

3. Remove half of the garlic bread crumbs and reserve.

4. In the food processor (with half of the bread crumbs still remaining), add the goat cheese, basil, parsley, oregano, and season with sea salt, cayenne and pepper to taste

5. Scoop the goat cheese mixture into the mushrooms (about 1/2 T mixture per mushroom) and pat the cheese-side of the mushroom in the reserved breadcrumb mixture.

6. Spray the tops of the breaded mushrooms with nonstick spray and bake on the cookie sheet for 20 minutes.

That pizza looks so good! And I bet the little box it came in was cute and small too 🙂

And I’m sure the mushrooms taste great, I’m just not a mushroom fan.

Ooh nice about the netbook — I like being able to work on a post or read blogs during my lunch break. There are too many things to do in a day, so any multitasking works well for me. Good for you — but too bad about the lack of pink.

cute little netbook… I know what you mean, though… ALL of my things are PINK, and for a while I had RED flip phone. totally stood out in the crowd of pink… my phone now has a pink cover, and fits right in to the Pink Party! 😀

Congrats on the new Vaio!!!! The last good PC I bought was a Vaio laptop! It seriously lasted me 8 yrs before I had a few duds, and then said screw it and converted to Macs. But I heart’ed my Vaio, that thing was an extreme workhorse. I know you’ll have a long happy life together with it 🙂

Pizza Fusion! There’s one 6 blocks from me and yes, they have GF crusts and Vegan pizzas! It’s an awesome concept to be able to find vegan GF pizza, at a chain, no less! Happy that you got to partake!

The stuffed shrooms look stellar! Bravo!

Hope you have an awesome, chill evening hon..looks like you probably need it. Such the busy lady you are…me too..haha!

And I used to have a pink phone (the razor!) that matched perfectly with my pink laptop and pink digital camera but I had to get a new phone and verizon didn’t have anything pink! So now I’m stuck with a maroon phone and it looks so out of place haha

I think this could totally satisfy my daily mushroom cravings!! My mom goes insane because I go through a 16 oz carton every 2 days or so. I’m gonna try this with feta (my fave!) and hope it turns out good.

Mmmm goat cheese stuffed mushrooms! I’ve actually been contemplating making goat cheese stuffed mushrooms. This is not so much of a coincidence as me just always trying to infuse all of my other food with goat cheese… I did make goat cheese stuffed chicken last week…

After reading your post, I ordered the roasted beet and goat cheese salad at lunch with my sister and DANG goat cheese was phenomenal! I thought I didn’t like goat cheese (it’s so GOATY), but this one was so smooth and creamy and flavorful.

hi gina. like seriously, i just purchased the exact netbook at best buy or best bizzle as you would say;-). i hope i love it. i really needed a more portable pc since my travel has picked up a little. with all of the baggage restrictions and fees, the netbooks should work great.

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